Egypt: African Rights Summit Amid Dire Abuses Commission Should Loudly Sound the Alarm
Egypt is hosting an Africa human rights summit meeting beginning April 24, 2019, while its government is presiding over the worst human rights crisis in […]
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Egypt: International organizations urged to monitor constitutional referendum amid repressive climate
Joint Press Statement The undersigned rights organizations call on international organizations to monitor the upcoming referendum to amend the Egyptian constitution; if approved, […]
Egypt: Rights groups condemn latest surge in executions following unfree and unfair trials
The undersigned rights organizations condemn the Egyptian authorities’ latest spate of executions, with three people executed by hanging on February 13 and another three people […]
In a joint report regarding executions in Egypt. Three independent organizations call on Egyptian authorities to establish a moratorium on executions
Press release Geneva (11 February 2019) The Egyptian Front for Human Rights, Committee for Justice and the Arab Foundation for Civil and Political Rights call […]
Egypt: President must uphold, not manipulate the Constitution
The undersigned independent human rights organizations call on all independent voices able to speak up freely to pressure President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his […]
Sudan: International community must intervene immediately to save lives from ICC fugitive president who uses live ammunition on protesters
The undersigned rights organizations admonish the Sudanese authorities’ use of excessive force in responding to popular protests underway since December 19, which culminated in the […]
Attacks on People Who Met With UN Expert
(Geneva, December 12, 2018) – The United Nations should ensure an urgent and robust system-wide response to credible reports that the Egyptian authorities have attacked […]
Egypt: 43 days after former MP’s disappearance, state denies knowledge of his fate while emphasizing his fugitive status
The undersigned Egyptian rights organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to disclose the location and fate of Dr. Mustafa Al Naggar, a former member of […]
Egypt: Redraft civil society law to protect, not punish, independent organizations
With President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently issuing a decree to amend Law 70 of 2017 regulating civic organizations, the undersigned rights organizations emphasize the futility […]
Egypt: 12-year old child forcibly disappeared and held in solitary confinement in state’s “fight against terrorism”
October 30, 2018 Save Abdullah Boumedine The undersigned organizations condemn the unlawful measures taken by the Egyptian authorities against Abdullah Boumedine Nasr al-Din, age 12, […]
SUBJECT: DON’T PROVIDE POLITICAL COVER FOR BRUTAL REPRESSION OF EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT
November 2, 2018 Mrs. Soyata Maiga, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Banjul, Gambia SUBJECT: DON’T PROVIDE POLITICAL COVER FOR BRUTAL […]
Death sentence for 20 Egyptians upheld in latest affront to UN calls to abolish capital punishment
Geneva 1 October 2018 The undersigned organizations denounce the ruling on September 24, 2018 to uphold the death sentences of 20 defendants in connection with […]
Egypt: The United Nations working group on enforced disappearances affirms the systematic commitment of such crimes by Egyptian authorities against activists and human rights defenders.
Committee for Justice Press Release Geneva 17 September 2018 Committee for Justice (CFJ) said that the annual report issued by the United Nations Working Group […]
Statement on U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo’s Decision to Release Suspended Military Aid to Egypt
Joint Statement The undersigned independent Egyptian human rights organizations express our consternation over U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to release $195 million in […]
Egypt: Ruling in Rabaa Dispersal Case underscores need for immediate end to mass death sentences
Joint Statement The undersigned organizations unequivocally condemn the mass death sentence issued in Case no. 34150/2015, commonly known as the Rabaa Dispersal Case. The undersigned […]
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